[Freeswitch-users] Best practices for memory pool usage in modules?

[Nathan Neulinger]

In almost all of these cases, it's "allocate space to package up a message/pdu then send it over the socket", so it 
sounds like a simple malloc makes more sense.

-- Nathan

On 08/02/2013 05:46 PM, Anthony Minessale wrote:
> If the object has a complex life cycle then pools are better.  If its short lived frequent little one-off allocations
> may as well malloc
>
> On Aug 2, 2013 4:40 PM, "Nathan Neulinger" <nneul at mst.edu <mailto:nneul at mst.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I'm looking into memory leak issues with mod_skinny, and it seems clear that it's repeatedly allocating memory when it
>     doesn't really need to hang onto it permanently.
>
>     Since it has both a long standing connection to each device (listener) and has requests coming in regularly that
>     currently are allocating memory and appear to be leaking it since the listener stays around.
>
>     Would having the code allocate a new temporary sub-pool for each request that comes in be appropriate, or would it be
>     better to just use regular malloc for those allocate/use/destroy cases?
>
>     -- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger                       nneul at mst.edu
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